Re: BUG #14446: make_date with negative year

2016-12-05 19:38 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > 2016-12-04 14:40 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
>
> > > abelisto(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > with t(x) as (values('1111-11-11 BC'::date)) select
> > > make_date(extract(year
> > > > from x)::int, extract(month from x)::int, extract(day from x)::int)
> from
> > > > t;
> > > > ERROR: date field value out of range: -1111-11-11
>
> So make_date was introduced in 9.4 by commit f901bb50e; this report is
> based on 9.5. Do we want to backpatch this change? Since the fix only
> changes behavior that currently errors out anyway, we would not be
> changing anything that people are relying on. I lean towards
> backpatching all the way back to 9.4 myself.
>

I have not a problem with backpatch - there are a user who see current
behave as bug.

Regards

Pavel

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